Beautifully preserved, the UNESCO-protected city has an eclectic mix of indigenous and colonial styles covering more than four centuries of art and history.
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Happy publication day to Merlin Goldman! WANT, DO, GET contains heaps of useful tools and techniques to help writers produce better, more entertaining and well-structured scripts.
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Don’t be surprised if you feel like you’re being watched while you wander the streets and squares of Sibiu in Transylvania.
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Step away from the ubiquitous evil eye trinkets and pompom slippers – buy unique Greek gifts to take home. Joanna Peios takes you on a souvenir sprint round central Athens.
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A food hall in Norwich’s iconic Royal Arcade; a publisher of carefully curated travel guides; a 5* seafront hotel launch in Bournemouth; and King Charles II’s former party palace in Hampshire are just some of the exciting new clients we’re working with in 2022. Not forgetting our regular roster of clients who continue to rally to new highs despite the increasingly challenging climate.
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As yet one more ‘unprecedented year’ comes to an end, it’s fair to say 2021 went a bit wavy. Ever the optimists, we can’t help but feel 2022 is the year we finally get to make plans and see them through.
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Inspired by The Guardian’s Return to Sender article, over 100 days in lockdown I wrote a letter to my future self, post Covid-19. Here are a few from the spring/summer of 2020.
My spec dark comedy feature script Hurricane Betty started out as I'm sure many great ideas for a film do – with a drunken, almost unbelievable dinner party anecdote.
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For a classic introduction to Italy, cross over the French border into the Riviera di Ponente in north-west Italy, and head up its mountains into the unspoilt Ligurian countryside.
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For a completely different take on Athens head to Pangrati, a residential neighbourhood set behind the Panathenaic Stadium.
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Named after Rita Hayworth's character Gilda in the eponymous film, it’s been a star of the pintxo bar for over 70 years.
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The perfect bar crawl involves eating and drinking in equal measure. Which is why my heart and stomach fell so deeply for Bilbao, a city that embraces the art of picoteo or ‘bar crawling with intent to snack’.
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The Eden Project has been named the best dog-walking destination in the world, but would our cockerjack agree?
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Know your Beni Ourains from your Azilals in this handy guide to buying a Berber rug for your home.
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Buying a rug in Morocco is a fun yet often daunting experience for the uninitiated. Read on for some tips to help you enjoy a stress-free rug shopping trip.
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For our food obsessed household, the main draw of pressure cooking is how it saves money, as food cooks in around a third of the usual time, using less energy. Yet pressure cooking is not for the faint-hearted.
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Live Lagom is a Swedish philosophy that means ‘just the right amount’.
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Amsterdam West is having a bit of a moment. Once dubbed an industrial badland, the area is now thriving with students and young professional attracted to the area’s cheap rents. It’s also a great non touristy place to stay on your next visit to Amsterdam.
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Admit it – room service is for wimps. We’ve all been there – straight off the red-eye with a rumbling belly yet too jet-lagged to speak in proper English let alone the local dialect – we reach for the room service menu and hit 3. Really what we should be doing is hot footing it to the nearest street food stall for your first taste of paradise.
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The rise in community acupuncture clinics in the UK has given more people access to affordable treatment.
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